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Steven Rostedt (VMware) 9a19a93bdd tracing/x86/xen: Remove zero data size trace events trace_xen_mmu_flush_tlb{_all}
commit 45dd9b0666 upstream.

Doing an audit of trace events, I discovered two trace events in the xen
subsystem that use a hack to create zero data size trace events. This is not
what trace events are for. Trace events add memory footprint overhead, and
if all you need to do is see if a function is hit or not, simply make that
function noinline and use function tracer filtering.

Worse yet, the hack used was:

 __array(char, x, 0)

Which creates a static string of zero in length. There's assumptions about
such constructs in ftrace that this is a dynamic string that is nul
terminated. This is not the case with these tracepoints and can cause
problems in various parts of ftrace.

Nuke the trace events!

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180509144605.5a220327@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 95a7d76897 ("xen/mmu: Use Xen specific TLB flush instead of the generic one.")
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2018-05-22 18:53:57 +02:00
arch tracing/x86/xen: Remove zero data size trace events trace_xen_mmu_flush_tlb{_all} 2018-05-22 18:53:57 +02:00
block bfq-iosched: ensure to clear bic/bfqq pointers when preparing request 2018-05-01 12:58:19 -07:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - fix possible uninit-value in alg_bind() 2018-05-16 10:10:23 +02:00
Documentation arm64: Add work around for Arm Cortex-A55 Erratum 1024718 2018-05-16 10:10:25 +02:00
drivers vfio: ccw: fix cleanup if cp_prefetch fails 2018-05-22 18:53:57 +02:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs proc: do not access cmdline nor environ from file-backed areas 2018-05-19 10:20:27 +02:00
include tracing/x86/xen: Remove zero data size trace events trace_xen_mmu_flush_tlb{_all} 2018-05-22 18:53:57 +02:00
init kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2018-02-22 15:42:23 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-24 09:36:23 +02:00
kernel perf/core: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for ->aux_pages[] 2018-05-16 10:10:31 +02:00
lib errseq: Always report a writeback error once 2018-05-09 09:51:54 +02:00
mm proc: do not access cmdline nor environ from file-backed areas 2018-05-19 10:20:27 +02:00
net l2tp: revert "l2tp: fix missing print session offset info" 2018-05-19 10:20:27 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Partially fixes the bpf.o build 2018-04-26 11:02:12 +02:00
scripts kconfig: Fix expr_free() E_NOT leak 2018-04-26 11:02:08 +02:00
security commoncap: Handle memory allocation failure. 2018-04-29 11:33:16 +02:00
sound ALSA: control: fix a redundant-copy issue 2018-05-22 18:53:56 +02:00
tools test_firmware: fix setting old custom fw path back on exit, second try 2018-05-09 09:51:54 +02:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC/ITS: protect kvm_read_guest() calls with SRCU lock 2018-05-22 18:53:57 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: keep spec file until make mrproper 2018-02-13 10:19:46 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS dt-bindings: Document mti,mips-cpc binding 2018-03-15 10:54:35 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.42 2018-05-19 10:20:27 +02:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.